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  "abstract": "Introduction: Current or former smokers with a 20–pack-year history between the ages of 50 and 80 years are eligible for lung cancer screening (LCS) under current guidelines. Despite age restrictions for screening, older patients remain at risk for lung cancer and, without screening, are diagnosed with advanced-stage disease that limits curative treatment options.\n\nTreatment for early-stage lung cancer has improved with minimally invasive surgical techniques and reduced toxicity associated with stereotactic body radiation therapy. Robust older patients can tolerate surgical resection or stereotactic body radiation therapy with rates of recovery similar to those of their younger peers. Given the advancements in treatment and the improved tools available to identify frailty, chronological age should not be a gatekeeper for LCS.\n\nMethods: A taskforce within the International Society of Geriatric Oncology was created to address challenges of LCS within older patients. Taskforce members represented five different specialties with clinical expertise in lung cancer and the care of older adults.\n\nResults: For patients above 80 years old who qualify for LCS, we recommend performing a geriatric assessment (GA) to assess functional status and age-related vulnerabilities. Robust patients, as determined by GA, should be eligible for screening and discuss their health care priorities in shared decision-making conversations. GA should be performed every 2 years while patients are enrolled in LCS to determine the appropriateness of continued screening efforts.\n\nConclusions: Age should not be an exclusion criterion for LCS. Patients above 80 years old should be thoughtfully co-managed by geriatric and lung cancer specialists to determine which older patients would benefit from screening efforts.",
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    "Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts",
    "Division of Aging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts",
    "Department of Geriatric Medicine, Rabin Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel",
    "Department of Supportive Care Medicine, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California",
    "Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center and University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands",
    "Department of Palliative Care, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany",
    "Department of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy",
    "Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedale Borgo Trento, Verona, Italy",
    "Department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark",
    "Department of Oncology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel",
    "Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital Brussels, Jette, Belgium",
    "Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama",
    "Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden"
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  "title": "Lung Cancer Screening Recommendations in the Elderly: International Society for Geriatric Oncology Consensus Statement",
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